### Page | 1 **INTERVIEW GUIDE**  **FOR COMPARISON SCHOOL**  **TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS**  TARGETED RESPONDENT: These interview questions are intended for teachers and counselors at comparison schools that may have School Improvement G rants but are not served by grantees of the Corporation for National and Community Service ’s AmeriCorp s Program . CONTENT: This document contains interview questions to be asked of teachers and counselors at comparison schools NOT served by grantees . **1. Does your school have**  **volunteers, support staff,**  **or external partner**  **s whose role is to support school**  **** **wide implementation of your school improvement initiative**  **? If so, please describe their role**  **s and**  **organization s**  **(if they represent an external partner) . W**  **hat do those volunteer** **s, support staff, or external partners**  **do at your school?**  **Did the activities change throughout the year? If so, then why?**

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________________ _______________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_______________________________________________ ___________________________**  **2. What level of interaction did you have with**  **these volunteers, support staff, or external partners**  **? In what**  **capacity, if any, did you work directly with these individuals**  **?**

**______________________________________________________ _______________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_______________________________ ______________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **3. Do these**  **volunteers, support staff, or external partners work directly with students?**  **Can you please describe the process**  **for assigning tasks to those individuals**  **who work with students you teach or**  **serve as a counselor?** 

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**4. How did you communicate with**  **these volunteers, support staff, or external partners**  **about the progress of your students**  **with whom they were working?** 

**____________________________________________________________________________ _________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________ ________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **5. How prepared were**  **the se**  **volunteers, support staff, or external partners with whom you worked directly**  **to support**  **your school ?**  **What recommendations do you have about improving the training for such**  **individuals before or once**  **they begin to work in schools ?** 

**_________________________ ____________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **__ ___________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________** **__ 6.**  **Have these**  **volunteers, support staff, or external partners had**  **a positive academic influence on the**  **students they work with ?** 

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________________ _______________________**  **7. Have**  **these volunteers, support staff, or external partners**  **h ad**  **a positive influence on the students they**  **work with in terms of improved attendance, behavior, engagement, or socio -**  **emotional health?**

**__________________________________ ___________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **8. Who super** **vised the se**  **volunteers, support staff, or external partners ?**  **How adequate is the supervision of these individuals**  **? By school faculty/staff? By a designated team leader/supervisor** **/coordinator ?** 

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________________ _______________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_______________________________________________ ___________________________**  **9. In**  **which of the following ways did**  **these individuals contribute to your school’s capacity to implement**  **its school improvement plan**  **? Specifically, how did**  **they help the school build capacity through...**  a) fostering respect among stu dents and staff ? b) involving families (e.g. in attending events, providing access to information and resources to support their child’s education, helping students complete homework, volunteering in child’s classroom )? c) meeting the academic needs of specific groups of students ? d) meeting the behavioral and/or socio - emotional health needs of specific groups of students? e) filling additional instructional/support staff positions ? f) supporting teachers in the use of data/assessments and with classroom activities?

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g) providing before -, after - school, or extended learning time programming ? h) improving the school environment and climate ? i) other activities and contributions? (please specify)

**____________________________________________________________________________________ _________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________ ________________________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________**  **10. How**  **satisfied are you**  **with the effectiveness of interv entions provided by**  **these individuals**  **?** Probe (IF YES) : What worked well ? Probe (IF NO) : What needs to be improved?

**_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **______________________________________________________________________ _______________________**  **_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________**  **_______________________________________________ ___________________________**  **11. What challenges h**  **ave you experienced in implementing interventions led by**  **volunteers, support staff, or external partners**  **in your classroom or in**  **student counseling** **/tutoring programs**  **? How were they resolved?** 

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